Homework help

Homework help for
Students with an international background

Homework help is now
Available for students with an international background in Years 9-11 in Hafnarfjörður.
The project is intended for students who need help with their homework and are interested.
to meet once a week and receive help from volunteers. The homework help
is available every Wednesday from 16:30 – 18:00 at Hafnarfjörður Library.

The aim of the project is to create a framework where students with
Students from foreign backgrounds receive help with their homework. The project began in the autumn as soon as
The primary schools started teaching and the first week of the school year was spent catching up.
outside of that group of students, need the assistance. The students have now turned up
to the Hafnarfjörður Library on several occasions and received assistance from volunteers from
Flensborg and the Red Cross helping with their homework (often all their homework
for the week). Most of the volunteers
are secondary school and university students, and so it wasn't long ago that they themselves were
to learn what they are helping students with. That is how the volunteers are
„Fresh“ in what they guide them in and they connect with the kids really well.

Increased skill in
in a wide-ranging field

The project is designed to ensure that those children who
not getting help with their studies at home for when they come to be at an advantage
academically and not least socially. The arrangement is nothing new and
has experience elsewhere demonstrated increased academic ability, increased social skills,
better Icelandic skills and improved participants' self-confidence and well-being at school as
Often goes hand in hand with academic security.